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By: Hunter757
Posted: 6/28/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Sorry for the late report, We decided to try Alder lake for kokes and see what our luck would bring us as my go to lake American has been in a slump. My son and I arrived around 9 am on the free fi...
By: skunked
Posted: 6/14/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The kids and I arrived at Alder lake about 6a.m. The fishing was really good but was not able to catch anything over 12 inches. We used everything Ford Fenders with spinners Dodgers with spinners or h...
By: the piranha
Posted: 5/16/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
First time to Adler. First ran way back up in some bay, only had one file from a smallie. Went back out to main lake and targeted small bays and points. After about 3 hours found a pattern on bitsy ...
By: Toni
Posted: 3/26/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/24/2015
Hot Spots: 1
I went to check out Alder Lake today. The tops of the hills close had snow on them, probably a fresh dusting from during the night. They were working on the ramp digging up some concrete. They took a ...
By: Toni
Posted: 9/23/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/22/2014
Hot Spots: 2
I got to the lake at 7:30am but didn’t get my first koke until 8:30am. I had some bites but no takedowns until that first one. I went from 35 foot to 140 foot of water and all the fish came at 10-14 f...
By: Toni
Posted: 8/10/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2014
Hot Spots: 2
This report is late due to a yard sale.
We got to the launch to find out that they don’t open it until after 7am on the Thursday that we were there. We were on the water before 7am off by 10am so ...
By: Toni
Posted: 7/30/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/29/2014
Hot Spots: 1
After I had 3 cups of coffee, on the 28th, I called Kim to see if she could go fishing with me tomorrow at Alder Lake. She had been there last month and I have never been there. She said Yes.
We go...
By: Sheepdog981
Posted: 7/28/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Caught Kokanee all day long. Consistent bites or hook ups back and forth between the boat launch and dam. Pink or orange hoochies and red wedding rings behind pop gear with an ounce of weight 75 - 100...
By: iraru4
Posted: 9/25/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/25/2013
Hot Spots: 3
went to alder today @ 9:30 and fished for Kokes with orange wedding ring and maggot, had our limit in 45 minutes all nice bucks about 11 to 13 inches, That's the good news, bad news is when I returned...
By: vevalachris
Posted: 9/2/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Launched out of Alder Lake State Park. Out of the launch we hung an immediate left and began to troll along the shore in a counter close wise direction in what I would call an inlet. Water temp was ab...
By: bulletsarmy
Posted: 8/27/2013
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for such a late report but my vacation is almost over. Just moved here and used to catching crappie back on Truman Lake in Missouri. Anyhow, took me a minute but found the crappie in Alder Lake ...
By: 05cr125r
Posted: 8/8/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished yesterday and today for Kokanee while staying at Alder Lake...i was trolling Kokanee pop gear with a wedding ring rigged with a treble hook, and using Gulp maggots. Saw many fish jump and had ...
By: Silverseeker
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My fishing partner and I hit the lake about 7a m and caught our first Kokanee at 7:20am just under 10in in front of the dam. It was pretty cold and breezy in the morning but cleared off nice at noon. ...
By: Roosterpie
Posted: 6/7/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Alder. Wanted to skip opening day mayhem on the rivers. Weather was great with great views. Never fished Alder before. Got out a little before six. Launched at Alder Lake Park. Trolled until ab...
By: Racer
Posted: 6/4/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I decided to go to Alder today as we haven't been there in quite awhile. We got to the lake about 7:30 and went to the dam to start. It was slow to start but then we found the combo they ...
By: tacmoe
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Sat 6/1/13 fished from shore where river enters the lake at Elbe. Used piece of nightcrawler with red eggs, 3ft leader, 1/6th ounce slider sinker above swivel. four 10"-14" rainbows in 2 about two hou...
By: quaddaddy
Posted: 5/25/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2013
Hot Spots: 3
First time at Alder Lake and it's a very nice lake. Fishing was slow in the morning but it was very cold and a pretty good wind was blowing. Around 10 am the tide turned and we put 10 Kokanee and 1 Ra...
By: Nx750
Posted: 4/28/2013
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/24/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Spent the last week at Alder Lake searching for Crappie. Alder is an amazing lake and I enjoyed the great weather we had. I only managed to boat one fish (Kokanee). I was really focused on the Crappie...
By: dlisoski
Posted: 3/10/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Excellent sunny weather got my wife and I with some friends out fishing for the day. Caught 3 trout (1 rainbow and 2 kokanee) about 11 inches after an hour to 1 1/2 hours of fishing from shoreline. Th...
By: Travesty 85
Posted: 11/4/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Over all great day of fishing. Set in around 11am and fished till dark. Spent some time trolling around the lake with a down rigger ranging from 30-45'. First time fishing this lake and at first was n...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/9/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
JoAnn and I got to fish with Lou Smith from the site today. I was pretty pumped up about catching tons of kokanee as I had heard the lake holds a lot of them, although on the smaller size. Figured we ...
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 8/18/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Alder Lake has had a 10 kokanee limit for years in an attempt to reduce the population and allow the remaining fish to grow larger on the limited plankton available. Today I saw the classic example wh...
By: jimdixon
Posted: 7/28/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2012
Hot Spots: 2
had a day off and woke up late. started fishing around 10am. caught one small kokanee off the boat launch. decided to go to mouth of little nisqually and fished all around the no wake zone to finger l...
By: Slacktime
Posted: 7/6/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Alder with a friend and caught and released 25 or 30 of fingerling perch and 2 smallmouth bass that went about 16" each. I usually don't keep bass but I wanted some fried fish for dinner.
Posted: 6/27/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
rainy day on alder... there was a bass tournament going on. not sure which club or how they did. i was able to get this nice hen, she was still holdin eggs. the spawn must have began and stalled with ...
